Wayne Gersoff, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Denver, CONPI 1477570075
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.2%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Vericel Corporation accounts for 78.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $53,156 and has fallen 82.8% since, to $9,153 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in CO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 163 payments — averaging $1007.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Vericel Corporation$128K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$13K
- Bacterin International Inc$13K
- Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.$6K
- Stryker$2K
- Arcuro Medical Inc$2K
- plus $877 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$71,51744%
- Speaking & faculty fees$72,62744%
- Travel & lodging$14,1009%
- Food & beverage$5,9744%
- Entertainment$500%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Vericel Corporation | 127 | $128,254 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 6 | $12,689 |
| Bacterin International Inc | 1 | $12,500 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $6,426 |
| Stryker | 2 | $1,859 |
| Arcuro Medical Inc | 6 | $1,662 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $415 |
| Ziehm-orthoscan, Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $125 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 1 | $65 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $47 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Joint Restoration Foundation, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- MACI$117,081
- ALLOGRAFT$8,456
- Pre-Sutured Tendon$5,500
- BIOCLEANSE ACHILLES TENDON$3,450
- CROSSFLOW PUMP$1,800
- SUPERBALL$1,627
- Fresh-stored OC$1,000
- BIOCLEANSE MENISCUS$471
- ON-Q* PUMP AND ACCESSORIES$125
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$122
How this compares
$164,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 383 orthopaedic surgery providers in Colorado.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 30 | $295 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 12 | $37 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Denver
- Douglas DennisDenver$16.8M
- Brian HaasDenver$5.1M
- Charlie YangDenver$3.6M
- Todd MinerDenver$278K
- Benjamin SearsDenver$186K
- Harold HuntDenver$179K
- Catherine LoganDenver$93K
- David HahnDenver$77K
- Joshua ParryDenver$47K
- Joel MattaVail$21M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.